During public forum three residents addressed the council about fireworks, swimming instruction, the city pool schedule and project-management concerns for essential services building (ESB) seismic upgrades.

Sunny Bostrom Fleming urged the council to consider banning consumer fireworks in Piedmont, citing national emergency-room and fire statistics and public-safety concerns. "I think the time has come to join with Massachusetts ... and say, California has had enough of these do it yourself fireworks and loss of life, and we're only going to have professionals do them from now on," Fleming said. She also urged broader community efforts to promote swimming instruction, saying thousands die on July 4 nationally because they "didn't know how to swim."

Dawn Chandler pressed staff for updates on the ESB seismic upgrades and asked whether staff reports exist on monies budgeted for ESB seismic work. Chandler also expressed disappointment at the lack of a recent pool project update and described the pool schedule as slipping: noting that a July fill date would push commissioning six weeks later into October and saying the project had moved from a spring completion projection in July 2024 to a date months later. Chandler cited Measure UU figures from the public forum: "the city passed Measure UU in 2020 for $19,000,000. It's now the budget about $35,000,000," and asked council to adopt stronger project-management approaches before repeating those patterns on ESBs.

Lois Curran spoke briefly to thank the council for the community's progress and to congratulate the outgoing police chief; her remarks were primarily ceremonial. The council closed public forum and moved on to the meeting's ceremonial proclamation and other agenda items.

None of the public-forum remarks triggered immediate council action at the meeting; Chandler's request for staff reports was directed to city staff for follow-up.